New Delhi: Amazon India is currently accepting applications for its 11th edition of Amazon Customer Excellence (ACE) Challenge 2021. The competition is open to students pursuing their MBA in select Indian institutes. The competition aims at helping participants to Innovate, strategize and build diverse solutions for Amazon and to put participants’ skills to test. Students have to register under a four member team, and all the team members have to verify and confirm their details otherwise the team registration will be considered invalid.
Registrations have to be submitted before 8 August 2021, and the preliminary round consists of a quiz. Each team member will take a 30 minutes quiz individually and these individual scores will be averaged to determine the final team score. The top 10 teams from 12 campuses each and the top 10 teams from the wildcard campuses will be shortlisted for the campus round. After the campus round, 13 National Finalists will compete in the virtual Grand Finale and present their solutions to an eminent jury of Senior Amazon Leaders.
Who Can Take Part in the Amazon India Customer Excellence Challenge 2021
The competition is open to participants pursuing first and second-year of any full-time MBA program from the following institutes:
§  Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad.
§  Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore.
§  Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta.
§  Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow.
§  Xavier School of Management (XLRI).
§  Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore.
§  Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kozhikode.
§  Indian School of Business (ISB).
§  SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai.
§  Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), Delhi.
§  National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai.
§  Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon.
Furthermore, first and second-year students pursuing any full-time MBA program from the following institutes can participate as wildcard entries:
§  Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Mumbai.
§  Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSoM), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur.
§  Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Udaipur.
§  Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Shillong.
§  Mudra Institute of Communications (MICA), Ahmedabad.
§  Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management (SJSOM), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay.
§  Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM), Pune.
§  Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), Delhi.
§  Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Ghaziabad.
§  Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ranchi.
§  Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS), Mumbai.
§  Department of Management Studies (DMS), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi.
§  Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Tiruchirappalli (Trichy).
Prizes to Be Offered to Winners of Amazon India Customer Excellence Challenge 2021
The winners of the challenge will get to enjoy the following benefits:
§  Winners will receive cash awards worth Rs 2,00,000.
§  The first runners-up will receive cash awards worth Rs 1,50,000.
§  The second runners-up will receive cash awards worth Rs 50,000.
Apart from cash prizes, all the winners as well as campus winners will win pre-placement interviews (PPIs) at Amazon. Interested candidates are advised to go through the official website for more information.
